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Facing Fire

Yesterday was not a surprise the match was lit years ago with bragging words fake power and falsehoods of faith  in god, country, and people slowly stirring a pot that had been smoldering  by those wearing Teflon   it was pitiful to watch unfold shameful behavior  sadness to see how we have failed if this were anywhere else if ivory was ebony if the truth stood bravely if... meanwhile in the same breath of time -over 8000 Americans died of covid 19 in two days, -the auctioning of the arctic to ...
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Allegiant Air is adding 21 low-cost leisure routes to this year with service to 3 new cities - here's the full list

An Allegiant Air Airbus A320 aircraft. Ryan Fletcher / Shutterstock.com Allegiant Air is adding 21 new routes and three new cities in 2021. The route expansion spans from coast to coast with the first routes launching in March. Regions with beaches, national parks, and/or mountains are among the main focus as that's where travel trends are now pointing. Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories. Allegiant Air is continuing a nationwide expansion with 21 new routes planned for 2021...
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Avi Brosh's Palisociety Furthers National Expansion and Brand Portfolio with the Acquisition of ARRIVE Hotels and Restaurants

Avi Brosh's Palisociety has announced the acquisition of ARRIVE Hotels & Restaurants and its collection of properties, including ARRIVE Austin, ARRIVE Phoenix, ARRIVE Palm Springs, ARRIVE Memphis, and ARRIVE Wilmington, as well as ARRIVE New Orleans and ARRIVE Albuquerque, which are currently under development. The ARRIVE portfolio is being absorbed by Palisociety, which owns and operates 11 hotels nationally under the Palihouse, Palihotel, and Independent Collection brands.
Tags: Travel, New Orleans, Memphis, Palm Springs, Albuquerque, Phoenix, Wilmington, ARRIVE Hotels Restaurants, Avi Brosh, Palisociety

United is preparing for a Boeing 737 Max resurgence in February with the 12 first routes just added to its schedule - here's the full list

A United Airlines Boeing 737 Max 9. Philip Pilosian/Shutterstock.com United Airlines revealed the first 12 routes that its Boeing 737 Max aircraft will fly. The newly ungrounded jets will be based in Denver and Houston with routes from coast to coast. United operates the larger Boeing 737 Max 9 jet and is currently the only airline in the US to operate the type. Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories. United Airlines has scheduled the first routes for its Boeing 737 Max aircraf...
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Aimbridge Hospitality Awarded Management of Pointe Hilton Tapatio Cliffs Resort

Aimbridge Hospitality, the leading, global, third-party hotel management company, has been awarded management of the 584-room Pointe Hilton Tapatio Cliffs Resort, located just 20 minutes from downtown Phoenix. Boxer Resorts, a company of Boxer Property Management Corporation, will continue to asset manage the property.Aligned with concentrated focus, agility, and expertise to operate each hotel vertical, Aimbridge is the largest third-party operator of full-service and resort properties, ...
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The Capitol riots caused chaos in the skies as airlines flew protesters home from a violent day in Washington, DC

Pilots chatting in front of an American Airlines plane. Mike Stone/Reuters Airlines have been flying protesters home from last week's "Stop the Steal" rally-turned-riot and some continued rallying while in the air. An American Airlines flight turned into an aerial rally as passengers began chanting "USA," prompting the pilot to threaten to land the plane. Alaska Airlines reported banning 14 passengers after "non-mask compliant," "rowdy," and "argumentative" behavior on a flight from Washin...
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Facing Fire

Yesterday was not a surprise the match was lit years ago with bragging words fake power and falsehoods of faith  in god, country, and people slowly stirring a pot that had been smoldering  by those wearing Teflon   it was pitiful to watch unfold shameful behavior  sadness to see how we have failed if this were anywhere else if ivory was ebony if the truth stood bravely if... meanwhile in the same breath of time -over 8000 Americans died of covid 19 in two days, -the auctioning of the arctic to ...
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The iconic El Tovar hotel at the Grand Canyon won me over with its historic charm, location steps from the rim, and enhanced cleanliness protocols

When you buy through our links, we may earn money from our affiliate partners. Learn more. Wendy Rouse Gould / Business Insider Dating back to 1905, El Tovar is one of Arizona's most iconic hotels, directly overlooking the Grand Canyon.I spent a night at El Tovar in late November and enjoyed the lack of crowds the winter brings. During peak times rates can jump to the $400s, but you can snag entry-level rooms for as low as $189 in the winter. Read more: The best national parks for winter...
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Alaska Airlines is buying another 23 Boeing 737 Max jets for a total of 68 and adding new routes to its namesake state

Boeing 737 Max aircraft of Alaska Airlines, Southwest Airlines, and Gol Linhas Aéreas. LINDSEY WASSON/Reuters Alaska Airlines and Boeing signed an agreement in principle for a total of 68 of the 737 Max aircraft with an option for 52 more. Deliveries will take place over the next four years as Alaska uses the jets to replace its Airbus A320 family fleet.  Alaska has not yet taken delivery of a Boeing 737 Max yet but plans to fly the jet in March 2021. Anchorage, Alaska will also see three ...
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Hotel Worker Employment Data Reveals Paycheck Protection Program’s Failure to Keep Workers on Payroll

As Congress continues to debate further Paycheck Protection Program aid, UNITE HERE Local 11's analysis of internal hotel worker employment levels in Los Angeles County, Orange County, and Phoenix from May to October reveals that the PPP failed in its primary goal of returning workers to their jobs, and instead bailed out large hotel chains on a massive scale.
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Frontier Airlines is launching 19 new routes and expanding to 3 new cities in 2021 with a new shortest route at 167 nautical miles — here's the full list

A Frontier Airlines Airbus A321. Carlos Yudica / Shutterstock.com Frontier Airlines is planning massive growth in 2021 with 19 new routes and entry into three new cities. The bi-coastal expansion will focus primarily on California and Florida but cities across the US will see increased service.  In the Caribbean, Frontier is taking the fight to Spirit Airlines with increased service to the Dominican Republic and US Virgin Islands.  Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories. Fronti...
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Frontier Airlines is launching 19 new routes and expanding to 3 new cities in 2021 with a new shortest route at 171 nautical miles — here's the full list

A Frontier Airlines Airbus A321. Carlos Yudica / Shutterstock.com Frontier Airlines is planning massive growth in 2021 with 19 new routes and entry into three new cities. The bi-coastal expansion will focus primarily on California and Florida but cities across the US will see increased service.  In the Caribbean, Frontier is taking the fight to Spirit Airlines with increased service to the Dominican Republic and US Virgin Islands.  Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories. Fronti...
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Atari is opening gaming-inspired hotels around the US, with vintage arcades and pop culture nightclubs. See what they will look like.

Atari. Photo by Andreas Rentz/Getty Images An Atari themed hotel is planned in Arizona, with more locations to come. Atari is behind hundreds of iconic games, including Pong and Centipede. New renders show what the gaming inspired hotel could look like. Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories. Atari, the brand forever linked with iconic games like Pong and Centipede, will soon be a theme for a gaming-inspired hotel in Arizona and Las Vegas.In January, strategy organization GSD G...
Tags: Travel, Gaming, Video Games, Entertainment, US, Trends, Tech, Features, Arizona, Pop Culture, Las Vegas, Atari, Pong, Esports, Phoenix, Gensler

Israeli VC firm and #Dubai merchant family form tech funding alliance | Financial Times

Israeli VC firm and Dubai merchant family form tech funding alliance | Financial Times:A leading Israeli venture capital firm is teaming up with a major Dubai merchant family to launch a funding platform to facilitate technology investments between the United Arab Emirates and the Jewish state, in the first such tech alliance since the normalisation of UAE-Israeli relations.The tie-up between OurCrowd and Abdullah Al Naboodah’s business development unit, dubbed Phoenix Capital, will aim to creat...
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Still

Would you believe that I am still the States, Texas this time, feeling sort of like Moses wandering around looking for the promised land?When I got to the Phoenix airport the lady checking me in told me my Covid 19 test had just expired but her boss waved me through saying that it wouldn’t be a problem since I had a French passport. She was so wrong. I went to the boarding gate in Dallas and the lady there ripped my ticket up and said I couldn’t board without a Covid test taken within 72 hours. ...
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NUVIA raises $240M from Mithril to make climate-ready enterprise chips

Climate change is on everyone’s minds these days, what with the outer Bay Area on fire, orange skies above San Francisco, and a hurricane season that is bearing down on the East Coast with alacrity (and that’s just the United States in the past two weeks). A major — and growing — source of those emissions is data centers, the cloud infrastructure that powers most of our devices and experiences. That’s led to some novel ideas, such as Microsoft’s underwater data center Project Natick, which just ...
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Zoom’s international revenue accounted for a third of Q2 revenue

Videoconferencing company Zoom’s Q2 revenue quadrupled, with a 355% year-on-year growth. Zoom CEO Eric Yuan said the use cases keep rolling in, and the service has been used for virtual jury trials, virtual property tours, and for providing mental health services. Going forward, Zoom hopes to see accelerating shifts from legacy PBX systems to cloud services like its own. This quarter, the company onboarded ExxonMobil and gaming company Activision Blizzard as enterprise customers. Zoom’s new cust...
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U.S. hotel transactions down 74% due to COVID-19

BROOMFIELD, Colorado—U.S. hotel transactions were down 74% year over year from March to May 2020, according to the just-released Hotel Transaction Almanac produced by STR's Consulting & Analytics office and CoStar Group. "The industry went from a position of record profit levels to financial distress in a matter of weeks, creating a shift in focus for those in the transactions community," said Hannah Smith, a senior consultant at STR. "Looking ahead, we expect transaction activity to even...
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PTSD sports treatment for veterans

Bill Geiger’s wife had reached her breaking point. After the Army MP returned home from deployments to Guantanamo Bay and Iraq, he had become a different person, removing himself into depression and often screaming at their children. And in the fog of readjustment to life at home, somehow he’d missed that there was a serious problem. “My wife left an email open on our computer to our pastor saying, ‘If I knew he was going to be like this, I’d never have married him,’” Geiger says. “It was the...
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Emirates NBD, Mashreq declare exposure to Phoenix Commodities - Arabianbusiness

Emirates NBD, Mashreq declare exposure to Phoenix Commodities - Arabianbusiness:Emirates NBD and Mashreq Bank have both declared exposure to the Dubai subsidiary of embattled Phoenix Commodities, according to filings posted to the Dubai Financial Market (DFM).Phoenix, which was founded in 2001 as a rice trading business, eventually grew to a global commodities firm that dealt in grains, coal, metals and other commodities.The company has gone into liquidation after amassing $400 million in potent...
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Commodities trader Phoenix goes into liquidation due to coronavirus: documents - Reuters

Commodities trader Phoenix goes into liquidation due to coronavirus: documents - Reuters:Phoenix Commodities Pvt Ltd, a trader of agricultural products with offices in Dubai and Singapore, is being liquidated after amassing more than $400 million in potential trading losses, according a document prepared by the liquidators seen by Reuters.The business, founded 20 years ago, grew into a company generating $3 billion in revenue in 2019 trading grain, coal, metals and other products but it unravell...
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Phoenix light rail trip planner

Phoenix is a sprawling city. A zigzag of freeways loop through and around the desert metropolis, and it’s all too easy to spend more time driving, not to mention parking and fighting over directions, than doing. Sure, there’s Uber and Lyft, but all those rideshares can add up fast. Enter the Valley Metro Rail, a 26-mile ride that stretches from central Phoenix to Tempe and downtown Mesa, past hip hangouts, playful boutiques, rave-worthy restaurants, underground bars, and even a lake. The line...
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Best pizza restaurants in Phoenix

Phoenix is a slice of pizza heaven. Yes, that Phoenix, the one where it’s nearly hot enough in the summer to cook said pizza on the sidewalk. While Chicago and New York were dueling it out for pizza supremacy, Phoenix was quietly building an army of pizza joints that could dethrone Naples. We’re talking true temples of dough, some stylish, some artisan, and some traditional. While there’s no “Phoenix-style” or even “Arizona-style” pizza, you can find places that have perfected just about ever...
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Air Doctor scores $7.6M to connect travellers with local doctors

Air Doctor, the health tech startup that connects travellers with local doctors, has raised $7.8 million in Series A funding. The round is led by Kamet Ventures (the AXA-backed venture builder), and The Phoenix Insurance Company. Founded in 2016, Air Doctor aims to empower travellers who get sick when abroad and need non-emergency advice or treatment. It has created a network of local private physicians that travellers can access, typically via travel insurance or perks. The platform is availabl...
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Sedona Area for a couple days

We are starting our trek north Saturday March 14 2020 we left Phoenix and moved up to Camp Verde only about 90 miles. This was a good location for us to see Sedona and take a day trip to see the meteor crater near Winslow AZ. The afternoon we a
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Phoenix Area

On March 1 2020 we left Tucson for Phoenix. We were lucky to get a spot in the same RV resort we were in over Thanksgiving in Sun City. It is on the north west side of Phoenix. Our first week was really hot 70s80s and sunny. We enjoyed several days by th
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Why Austin Airport’s New Independent Lounge Was Just Put On Hold

The Austin airport was supposed to be getting a new lounge accessible by American Express Platinum cardmembers. The airport solicited bids to run a new independent lounge, and selected MAG (“Manchester Airport Group”) USA which runs Escape lounges. A rendering of the lounge even suggested it might be a dual Escape Lounge-Centurion lounge which is the setup in Phoenix. However the Austin City Council balked in a dispute over minority contracting rules. Continue reading Why Austin Airport’s Ne...
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Shiji’s StayNTouch Implements its Mobile PMS Solution in “Low-Key Luxury” ARRIVE Hotels 

StayNTouch, a Shiji Group Brand and leading mobile property management and guest engagement solution provider for the hospitality industry, has partnered with ARRIVE Hotels & Restaurants to implement its mobile PMS in ARRIVE's Austin, Wilmington, Memphis, and Phoenix hotels, with more to follow later in the year.
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6 underbuzzed US nightlife spots

M iami, LA, and NYC are known for their electric nights. But what of cities with a bit less nightlife publicity? From Baltimore to Phoenix, you can still find plenty of places that pulse when the sun goes down — places that are open-air-dance-club good, that are secret-speakeasy good. From year-round Burning Man vibes, to smaller cities with unexpected and unbelievable craft beer scenes, to rooftops built for escaping the masses, here are a few under-buzzed nightlife scenes we all should be ta...
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The Aravaipa Canyon Hike in Arizona

If you want a unique hiking experience, then the Aravaipa Canyon hike needs to go on the must hike list. The canyon, located between Phoenix and Tucson in the Aravaipa Canyon Wilderness, sits in a landscape of soaring cliffs with   a beautiful creek flowing through it  year-round. Massive trees, thick riparian vegetation and lots of birds and wildlife make this a one of a kind Arizona experience. Reportedly w hen the leaves change colours in the fall, the canyon is even more dramatic than w...
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